Sooooo... On Friday we went off to Ratanga Junction. True we were among the oldest people in the queue but at least we weren't spending our parentally supplied pocket money on the entrance fee so there!
So of the rides were wild and some were pretty exhilarating and some were slow (boat and train rides) and bizarrely the longest queue was for the Bumper Cars (???? What's so exciting about that) Some of the kiddies rides looked like enough fun to be popular adult rides. We had a good time enjoying the rush of adrenalin and we got plenty of exercise walking from end to end to end of the park. My only real complaint was that the music was really bad - like taking an average of all the popular music on the radio and playing it at Full Volume ... Let me also say that renditions of the Single Ladies dance is so so so so last season ans old and going out of fashion - it's been done and dusted and youtubed and it's just about ready to be translated into Afrikaans and added to Sokkie Treffers 2009 to be blasted out at every caravan park New Years party along the Natal Coast! Give the song a break already!
Aaanywaay... After the childish exuberance of the theme park (couldn't figure the theme tho...) we decided to swap over to the adult solemnity of wine farm visits and wine tasting. First at Durbanville hills we sampled some of their best (which was a good way of learning which names go with which flavours: Sav Blanc - white, Cab Sav - Red, Merlot - Red fruity) I now can't decide if I prefer Shiraz or Pinotage but my education in vino is by no means coming to an end... (H: when you finish laughing at me... I welcome your guidance :P )
Then we decided we had time for one more wine farm so we drove along the road with all the wine farms and randomly turned off at the second next suitable wine farm. (for the sake of the story - D'Aria) There a super friendly lady behind the counter let us have a taste of their finest... I was amazed that the white wine with hints of asparagus Really did have a taste of asparagus! And the wine with a hint of green pepper really did too - didnt like it very much tho. Anyway I purchased a very tasty Merlot-Savigion Blanc blend called Blush And a very pleasantly light and fruity Merlot.
The novelty factor of the wines was that the labels were also in Braille! Extra points for originality!
Then we made our way home through the sights of town and District 6. After many several sip sip sippys of wine my gracious host decided to haul my fuzzy slightly inebriated unfit ass halfway up Lions Head and back my pounding head was soon replaced with the foul cursing of my buns-and-thighs. But at least the view on the drive and walk up and down was so totally worth it! Except that the clouds closed in and it all began to feel eerily like a computer game with a lazy scene designer...
and then I made dinner which was complimented by some of our newly acquired wine. High Five to my Domestication! I even washed dishes!
And after a DMC (look it up - I hope I got the TLA correct... or just ask...) we passed on to the exhausted happy dream-like state...
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